Yes — Psalm 2 is prophecy's outline for Israel, showing Messiah's rejection, divine derision, the coming tribulation, and the establishment of His Kingdom.
Les Feldick consistently uses Psalm 2 as the Old Testament framework for what will happen to Israel. In his teaching, the opening verses depict Jew and Gentile rejecting the Anointed One, which points to the crucifixion. After that comes an undetermined time of derision, then the seven-year tribulation, and finally the King returns to set up the Kingdom on Zion. The Church Age is absent from this outline because it was a secret hidden in the mind of God until revealed later.
Psalm 2:1-2 — Shows the nations and rulers rebelling against the LORD and His Anointed, the opener Les connects to the rejection and crucifixion of Christ.
Psalm 2:4-5 — Reveals God's response of derision and wrath, which Les identifies with the period after Christ's rejection and with the Tribulation.
Psalm 2:6 — Declares the Kingdom outcome with the King set on Zion, the prophetic goal Les teaches for Israel.
Daniel 9:24 — Gives the time-bound 490-year frame Les uses to show Israel's prophecy is time-specific.
Psalm 2 opens with rebellion against God and His Anointed: 'Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.' This describes the world's rulers united in opposition to the LORD's chosen King. The psalm then presents God's response from heaven: 'He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.' The text declares that God will not leave the rebellion unanswered. The prophetic outcome appears in verse 6: 'Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.' The psalm thus moves from rejection and wrath to the appointment of the King on Zion.
Les Feldick describes Psalm 2 as 'the basic outline of all the things that would happen concerning Israel, in simplified form.' He traces the outline from the rejection of the Messiah (verses 1-2) to God's derision at the nations, then to wrath and tribulation (verse 5), and finally to the Kingdom with the King set on Zion (verse 6). He says, 'That's Psalms 2 in outline, and that's all the Old Testament knows.' Les connects Psalm 2 to Israel's time-bound prophetic program. He says all true prophecy centers on Israel and is usually within a time frame, like Daniel's 490 years. He also places Psalm 2 into the timeline that runs from Abraham, through Moses and the Law, to Daniel's prophecy. The prophecy points to a coming seven-year tribulation and the return of the King before Israel receives the Kingdom. Les emphasizes what Psalm 2 does not contain: the Church, the Age of Grace. It is absent because it was a secret kept in the mind of God until He revealed it. The Old Testament writers did not see the church age. Therefore, for Les, Psalm 2 is not about the Church but about God's prophetic dealings with Israel.
Les Feldick reads Psalm 2 as a compressed sequence of prophetic events. First, the early verses show Jew and Gentile rejecting the Anointed One, which speaks of crucifying Him. He points out that the kings and rulers taking counsel together was fulfilled when the high priest and Pilate joined together to put Christ to death. Then God has the nations in derision, a period of confusion that Les says describes the nations of the world today. Next comes God's wrath in verse 5, which is the tribulation. Finally, verse 6 brings in the Kingdom: 'Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.'
Les Feldick says the Church Age is not in Psalm 2 because it is a secret held in the mind of God and was not revealed until later. He explains that the Old Testament writers did not see the church age; otherwise it would not have remained a secret. In the Psalm 2 outline, the sequence moves from the rejection of Christ to derision, then to the seven-year tribulation, and then to the King's return and Israel's Kingdom — with no room for the Age of Grace.
Les puts Psalm 2 within a timeline that begins with the call of Abraham in Genesis 12 and continues through the Abrahamic Covenant. About 490 years after Abraham, Israel went under the Law through Moses. Then Daniel 9 says 490 years are determined for Israel. Les stresses that all true prophecy centers on the nation of Israel and usually has a time frame, as these examples show. The Church Age, by contrast, has no such prophecy or time frame in the Old Testament.
Psalm 2:6 reads, 'Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.' Les teaches that this verse brings in the Kingdom as it will be centered in Jerusalem, where Zion is. It is the final stage of the prophetic outline: after rejection, derision, and tribulation, God's King is established on Zion.
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Psalm 2 as the Prophetic Outline
Les shows that Psalm 2 summarizes the entire Old Testament prophetic program: rejection, derision, the seven-year tribulation from Daniel, the King's return, and Israel's Kingdom.
Jew and Gentile Reject the Anointed One
Les explains that Psalm 2's opening verses are a prophecy of the crucifixion — both Jews and Gentiles reject the Anointed One — and that God responds by laughing at man's foolishness and holding the nations in derision.
Psalm 2 and the Prophetic Timeline
Les uses Psalm 2 as the framework for a timeline running from Abraham through Moses and the Law to Daniel's 490 years for Israel, showing that prophecy announces events before they happen.
From Rejection to Tribulation to Kingdom
Les traces Psalm 2's sequence as prophecy: rejection of the Messiah, derision, wrath and tribulation, and then the Kingdom with the King set on Zion in Jerusalem.
Prophecy Centers on Israel, Not the Church
Les stresses that Psalm 2 belongs to the Old Testament pattern in which true prophecy centers on Israel and operates within a time frame like Daniel's 490 years, while the church age has no prophecy.
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Crucifixion Fulfillment and the Hidden Age
Les reads Psalm 2 as a prophecy fulfilled when the high priest and Pilate joined together to crucify Christ, and he notes the Old Testament writers did not see the church age.
Psalm 2:1: Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
The opening question identifies the nations and Israel's leaders in rebellion, which Les connects to the rejection of the Anointed One.
Psalm 2:2: The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
This verse names the joint Gentile-Jewish conspiracy against God's Anointed, the event Les sees fulfilled at the crucifixion.
Psalm 2:3: Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
The rebels defiantly try to throw off God's authority, matching Les's point that mankind thinks it can rule without God.
Psalm 2:4: He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
God's heavenly response of derision is the period Les places between the rejection of Christ and the tribulation.
Psalm 2:5: Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Les identifies God's wrath in this verse with the coming tribulation.
Psalm 2:6: Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
This verse is the Kingdom climax of the prophetic outline, with the King established on Zion in Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:24: Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
Les cites Daniel 9:24 to show that Israel's prophetic program is set within a specific time frame, and he connects it to the seven-year tribulation.
Les Feldick calls Psalm 2 the basic outline of prophecy concerning Israel. He traces the rejection of the Messiah, God's derision of the nations, the seven-year tribulation, and the establishment of the Kingdom on Zion.
Les teaches that the Church Age was a secret kept in the mind of God during the Old Testament. Since Psalm 2 is prophetic of Israel's program, it moves directly from rejection and tribulation to the Kingdom without any mention of the Age of Grace.
In Les's teaching, yes. He says the early verses show Jew and Gentile rejecting the Anointed One, and he points to the high priest and Pilate joining together to put Christ to death as the fulfillment.
Psalm 2:6 is the Kingdom promise in the psalm. Les says this refers to the Kingdom centered in Jerusalem, where the King will be set on Zion.
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